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CAIRO (Reuters) – The Egyptian army said on Monday that Sudanese security forces had helped locate and return an Egyptian patrol missing in the border area between Egypt, Libya and Libya. Sudan. statement that Sudanese security and intelligence services rescued five Egyptian soldiers captured by an armed group in Libya early on Monday.
The Egyptian army did not immediately respond to questions about the capture or disappearance of soldiers. "The Egyptian armed forces express their thanks and gratitude to the Sudanese armed forces and security services for helping to make the patrol missing," said the Egyptian army statement. The Sudanese statement does not say when the soldiers went missing.
Egypt is fighting an Islamist insurgency in its Sinai Peninsula, but it has also fought militants who crossed its long western border with Libya.
He has carried out air strikes against militants inside Libya on the occasion since his neighbor fell into fractional fighting in the years following Moamer Kadhafi's civil war [19659005] Cairo supports Commander Khalifa's Libyan National Army. Haftar which dominates eastern Libya
(Reported by John Davison, edited by Hugh Lawson)
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